i really do not want to die young. as iraq's rampant violence breaks new tragic records r.t. documents the surge in civilian casualties with an in-depth database on the growing terror. target is nothing you don't. britain spine achieves can down whistle blowing at a parliamentary committee hearing on mass surveillance of rise of groups they avoided all the tough questions. britain has declared a global hub of financial secrecy is tax havens responsible for hiding most of the world's account of cash traced to the country's offshore zones and a pressure group report.

this area coming to life from moscow with me marina josh. iraq suffers the worst surge of violence in years with a number of civilian deaths rising almost every day at least thirty seven more people were killed on friday in attacks across the country with civilian casualties often not even making it to the mainstream media headlines our team has assigned to launch a special online project to keep track of those and a gorgeous going off now reports on how the spike in terror attacks is destroying and he hopes the iraqis might have had for peace. a journalist from baghdad abdul razzaq has grown used to being in the center of events but never before did he become the story himself until one day he was driving to work when suddenly. i turned towards the two storey bridge and the car exploded and i became conscious only twelve days later finding my leg was amputated. he survived but was shocked

again after finding out who was behind the attack my neighbor admitted being an al qaeda member since two thousand and seven he said killing it was a direct order he received that. this issue we should be in iraq has long gone beyond six hours. it has become clear iraq has become subjected to a war of genocide by terrorists were targeting all spheres of life. last week mr maliki met with president obama and the two leaders agreed iraq was in urgent need of help would be signs general statements nothing concrete came out like how to save people's lives on the ground. anyone who walks in the streets at any moment may face a car bomb a motorcycle bomb or an explosive belt and any moment anyone may be killed. it's ten or eleven years now that they're talking about the new security plan but nothing changes in the situation is only getting worse. and neither new checkpoints

arrests and more constant operations seem to be enough to gain control it's nearly impossible to establish exactly how many civilians were killed in iraq since the u.s. led invasion in two thousand and three many became casualties during military operations including shootouts and a shelling some died due to a lack of healthcare and ruined infrastructure but what we're looking at now are deaths specifically from terror attacks this year alone and the figures well the figures speak for themselves you've got this kind of r t moscow well with thousands killed this year september has been the deadliest month. so far with more than twelve hundred lives lost according to the widely quoted audit iraq body count all adding to the total of over one hundred thousand violence a billion deaths that iraq's witnessed since the start of the u.s. led invasion in two thousand and three man a military experts say it's the armed intervention that's led to this rapid rise in

the country with around four thousand suicide bombers blowing themselves up over the past decade well most of these figures come from iraq body count the world's largest public database of violence a billion deaths in iraq since the us invasion and it's in cooperation with this website that artie's launched its online project iraq twenty thirteen a year of carnage or smith spoke to one of the iraq body count co-founders about what's driving their work and how they find accurate data. a prominent u.s. general said of the war in afghanistan we don't do body counts it's too hard they said to get accurate information out of such chaos so others stepped in believing the human cost of war must be counted the iraq body count was born and according to the website's figures this year has been the deadliest in iraq since two thousand and eight how many co-found how many why this upsurge in violence more than seven

thousand people have been killed this year well there's a variety of factors but one of the thoughts is that we tend to focus on because we are looking at the rise and the statistical rise and this is the cycle of violence one of the things that we've observed is that as the violence rises you get more reason for the lines to rise again yet again on the same day as the both bombing there were fifty five lives lost in iraq and three hundred people injured but we didn't hear anything about that because it's just accepted as normal for iraq is this is that's what iraqis do into this new form of freedom the government here and in iraq seem very reluctant to publish any kind of civilian death toll it's embarrassing and it's obvious it doesn't paint a very good picture of iraq or their. handling of management of the violence in the country and government say it's just too difficult to get the figures but you seem to manage how do you do it will most of the information we get is from these sort of small news wire type reports in iraq the media reports and so on the really make

the news that nor the news consumer would see in other words it takes a research effort to pull together all these small reports that come from different parts of the country and that is what you would think of a small events a year of carnage then in iraq and if you want accurate information about what's going on just go to our website artie's during a special project with iraq body count go and take a look from friday. well joining me now to discuss the violence in iraq in more detail and its cause of course the president of the arab lawyers association is familiar with the situation in the country mr mccarthy thank you so much for joining us here on r t now give us your opinion on why you think of the year to this year in fact has become the deadliest since two thousand and eight what's behind this current surge in violence. must be the failure of the government this government is failing to protect the people because this is

the duty of any government and why the government is failing because the politics that is being played by the prime minister mr maliki at the moment it's feeding into the various sectarian fighting it's feeding into the. idea that somehow everybody keeps. i think it's it's really this is really wrong to do so because it's diverting the actual attention the thing that tension from the actual problem the failure of the government is the one which is the police authorities to the sectarian based rather than national one. information available they don't exchange information they don't investigate any of the issues they're not the end of the day when one looks at the the way it is done how could so many. on the streets without anybody finding them idea that we try and find who is doing it i think it's probably it wouldn't lead to

a scientific or an appropriate way to say it's a sectarian based. well you know you get to a system of they are sorry for interrupting you just said that blaming al qaida is diverting attention from domestic problems and the root causes of the problem there but you know what can be denied is that al qaida has been gaining strength across the region so how would you link their activity to what's happening in iraq. i think the way to understand it is that if you assume that all these explosions are being done then you have to assume that there is a very very large. and this is not operate the. variety of people certainly al qaeda is playing at all but the sectarian killing which is taking place and the explosions killing the civilians in coffee shops and in moscow it is part of the exercise of trying to divide and rule this policy of divide and rule

which is not a new thing it's always been practiced even by the romans and everybody else but i think the problem at the present moment is that most of the governments in the world treating the current regime in iraq as if it's a normal regime it only concentrates on the regimes they don't like whether it's miley or syria or sudan or whatever but everybody seems to be quite happy to deal with the with the iraqi regime whether it's the europeans the americans or indeed even russia was when when the iraqis came to russia to buy weapons and they were trying to bribe their way through so this calls for an action by the states to actually put some pressure on the iraqi regime to one become less dictatorial secondly become clean its act a little bit three to actually try and get everybody involved in the protection of the society rather than concentrating on only some sectarian factions maliki you

know has his own police his own army which does not report to anybody doesn't doesn't report to the minister of interior or the minister of defense or anybody else and in addition to that maliki is he is the minister of oil minister of interior defense prime minister chief of army staff and yes all the other you know . still in a kind i mean with violence is rather serious there i mean can you walk in government do anything to reverse the strand of rising civilian deaths i mean you just sowed that. gave us all of the reasons and painted the picture of what's happening in the country but what can be done to reverse this trend. well. i didn't hear the question very well but i think if one looks at the way that the security is being run the moment they still use these silly toy games which were sold to them by an english company which the english courts have put the man in

prison they've declared it to be nonsensical it's a meaningful. use of their still until now if you look at the at the search point at the point you find the iraqi security still carrying this little toy and trying to stop the bombing they are not doing the government is not doing enough. on the front of trying to get the police to become. professionals whether on the idea of trying to get participation from the other political parties among the causes of these explosions are some of the political parties who are within the political process trying to show that maliki is unable to run the show they are causing some of the enemies of neighbors we have a very bad neighborhood you've got a lot of people around who have a vested interest in that what you have terrorists. criminals you have the terrorists you have you have

a variety of elements but the still the blame lies with the government which is not stopping it this is number one and number two it's not investigating anything the idea that you just keep on hiding the figures and not. trying to declare what's happening doesn't show a responsible attitude of a government clearly they do not think that the life of the ordinary individual is worth it when parliamentarians in iraq. increasing their salaries and the ministers and everything. is the most corrupt state it's a it's a disaster of course the manifestation is the killing field which is seeing on your website which will be coming on. today it's a very devastating picture one can see it's very painful that's extremely well done professionally but i think it's a painful thing to see however at least it's putting on record what was happening in iraq on that as you painted the situation is very complex in iraq that was our

present of the arab lawyers association. and just to remind you to see the timeline of rampant violence in iraq has suffered this year you can check our two special online project to address as they are on screen for you. archie dot com is launching a special project to mark the appalling scale of violence in iraq. we want you to know. now has of britain's spy agencies have been questioned in public for the first time but it wasn't the

grilling many had hoped for following revelations of the case involvement in the u.s. led global surveillance the intelligence bosses used a chance to fan their work and criticize the source of the n.s.a. leaks artistry i don't speak. to it's not been you don't but you have to be. all the way out of my six also blamed journalist of the guardian newspaper for publishing the n.s.a. leaks calling it irresponsible that view was backed up by the g.c. h.q. chief. law minutes who insisted his agency isn't monitoring most of the british population but is focused on combat in terrorism we asked former am i five agent an english on whether she thinks that one is files have actually given terrorists any information they didn't already have. all terrorist groups in the last four decades have known that they could be on display and and they take very good and he's frail and techniques in order to make sure they're not forbade me the bridge will already did this in the one thousand nine hundred ninety ninety three so the idea that

they're using that as an excuse to dragnet all our personal surveillance and turn this into a police state is just not feasible as a former spy i would say that the best way to protect our country is actually targeted investigations but then we have this dragnet signify would probably use more information through that endemic surveillance and we probably put ourselves at greater risk by doing so and also by doing that as well we turn the country into a surveillance state. and was not allegedly used the passwords and log ins obvious colleagues at a spy base in hawaii to get his hands on the classified data that he then leaked to the media reports suggest he used his position as system administrator to persuade his coworkers to hand over their credentials and that those who agreed to were later identified and fired by the n.s.a. investigative journalist duncan campbell believes even though snowden cheated his coworkers it was done for the right cause i can't believe that anyone saying gratz a serious accusation you're talking about really in the fact that these agencies are stealing the entire world's address book so the american companies files yahoo

and microsoft bugging the european union the brazilian president the mexican president the german chancellor that they committed illegal crying in belgium against the europeans our communications company they have the nerve to complain that mr snowden should somebody else is. just ridiculous. still ahead defusing their reactor and in years in fukushima are braced for the removal of fuel rods from the complex the most dangerous step yet we examined the risks shortly after this break. a few u.s. presidents elected to a second term in office leave the white house successful or even popular bronc obama is the case in point his poll numbers are low his legislative agenda is in deep trouble and washington's friends and foes around the world do not take him

seriously is obama already a lame duck president. actually what happened that day i don't know but a woman got killed. piers later is when i got arrested for. for a crime i did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie about polygraph results. innocent people to confess the police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really. in the course of interrogation why because there's been this is like meant no because the psychological techniques are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse and they were they could do what they wanted they can say what they wanted and there was no evidence of what they did or what they said.

welcome back engineers of the fukushima nuclear plant in japan are about a star their most hazardous undertaking to date huge koreans will be lowered into the reactor that survived the meltdown of two thousand and eleven the star pulling out thousands of fuel rods a process that will take at least a year are just as he a chef he visited the exclusion zone. extracting these rods from the balls is a really hard task because each one of them called ways of more than three hundred kilograms and they can not even hit each other that's what caused a nuclear chain reaction not only these pools are crippled but the machinery the automated machinery doesn't work as well so every rod has to be extracted from the pool manually the typical company running the fukushima nuclear up process and the japanese government are now in a vicious cycle situation because on the one hand they need to remove these fuel rods they are contaminating the water as has been reported in the waters of the fukushima nuclear power plant and on the other hand of course this is a very risky venture because they have to literally extract every rod and there's

more than a thousand of them and each rod has to be extracted manually we also managed to take a peek inside the no go zone in other areas and you know what what shocked me the most that surprised me the most and i'm saying that by my experiences of travelling to the explosions on inch of normal that in the fukushima area the towns which are just close to the station ten fifteen kilometers away from the station they have been reopened for residents were literally saw people rebuilding their houses in this area in case anything happens these people would have to be relieved evacuated again and or putting themselves under very serious risk while in fact in the fukushima region itself there are several n.g.o.s who are do not believe the government and the tepco organization in their measurements or the radiation levels the one which struck me the most and we talked with them yesterday the movement called the mothers of fukushima these are ordinary women who are afraid for the safety and health of their children they bought three meters which is the cheapest of them costs around a thousand u.s. dollars and they are just but trawling the areas taking their own measurements and

sending them to the government but the government as they say is doing nothing it is not considering the radiation measurements as if they are trying to play down the scale of the things happening even in tokyo in front of the industrial ministry there is a peek at that there is a protest happening for already eight hundred days with the people there protesting against nuclear energy and the actions of the government and the tepco so you can see how serious the rhetoric of the anti-nuclear movement is now in japan even though they say that their voices being often silenced by those that. the plant's operator says it's confident the procedure will be completed successfully and that mishaps are almost impossible but nuclear waste specialist camps is less optimistic . it's absurd that tokyo electric is in charge of the globally significant extraction of the fuel from the pool if something goes wrong this could be a global catastrophe that dwarfs what has happened at fukushima daiichi thus far tokyo

electric has shown its true colors time and time again its incompetence its dishonesty even the director of the nuclear regulation authority of japan has warned that this process should not be rushed they should not try to force these assemblies out of their storage channels there is no radiological containment around the pool and if this waste were to catch on fire it could be ten times worse than chernobyl tokyo the metropolitan area is thirty million residents and they might have to be evacuated if that waste catches on fire so that that zone could become a dead zone for all time it already is and the evacuation zone should be much larger than twelve point four miles in radius even now. is fine and. he's keeping a close eye on the cleanup in fukushima and posing questions to the company in charge of the process to get up to the minute reports on the operation by checking his twitter account. also online

a virtual currency that can be held but can be stolen we've got a story of a bit coin bank ice theft that's left police in the dark over who is actually behind a robbery. plus the u.k. and russian secret services resume cooperation severed after the death of a former russian spy in london with security or the sochi winter olympics bringing the intelligence communities together. britain has been declared a leading hub of global tax evasion a pressure group report says along with its overseas territories the u.k. controls much of the world on account of cash boy the reports and why the secrecy is hard to resist. the u.k. government has been bashing tax avoidance for months in fact prime minister david cameron made increasing tax transparency a key issue at the g eight summit that he hosted earlier this year but despite all the evidence according to a group called the save the tax justice network britain is the world's worst

offender for financial secrecy twelve of its island dependencies where the queen is the head of state by the way ranked among the top fifty most secretive tax jurisdictions in the world the laws relating to these island dependencies such as the cayman islands bemused jersey and guns they have to be approved in london so campaigners say that the onus is on westminster to clean up their act well to talk about the issue i'm joined by salmond shaheen who's the editor of the international tax review magazine simon thank you for joining us well the people that deposit their money in these tax havens do it through entirely legal schemes so what's the fuss about anyway but i think it's a misconception to describe tax avoidance as legal it's just not illegal and the reason for that governments have been unable to anticipate the feed schemes employed by multinational corporations and their highly paid armies of accountants

and lawyers that they've they've sent across the world to root out the best tax feels the claims that britain has made a lot of steps to improve transparency especially over recent months they've certainly spoken a lot about it are you surprised by these negative rankings i'm not surprised but no i mean the crown dependencies and overseas territories of have long been considered among the worst offenders of all of the world tax haven ridge what is surprising is that the british government not doing very much about it really needs to get its network of tax havens offshore in the in order some machine thank you very much for joining us well reports that large corporations and super rich individuals have been dodging billion. of pounds in taxes three entirely legal loopholes have caused public outrage here so these that britain has been labelled the world ruler of tax havens is unlikely to be met by cheers of approval ahead playboy artsy london alice spoke to the director of the tax justice network who

told us that it's the banks which are encouraging offshore havens the important thing about secrecy is it doesn't just encourage tax evasion which is illegal let's be clear about that it also encourages fraud embezzlement and a very wide range of corrupt practices and this is the reason why the world no needs to talk of secrecy good tax evil economy is the cold so war which means most of these tax havens operate with some of the world's largest international banks some of the world's largest international accounting firms and some of the world's largest law firms so we know it isn't the title you can see it's the banks that are leading this and this lot so it can be done to talk to the banks as the states government has shown in these old efforts to tighten swiss spokes well let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world. rival

militias have clashed leaving capital tripoli leaving one person dead and eleven injured the shooting is believed to have been sparked by the death of a commander of one group during recent fighting two years on from the ousting of the country's still playing by a lack of security and divisions between secular and islamist forces. the strongest typhoon so far this year with the wind speeds of more than three hundred kilometers per hour has battered the philippines at least three people have died and tens of thousands of fled to evacuation centers the storm caused power outages and flooding and forest a cancellation of hundreds of flights. francis' credit rating has been cut by one grade to double a by standard and poor's is blaming high unemployment which is preventing the government from implementing reforms that could boost growth is the second time in two years that the country's credit rating has been dropped after previously being stripped of its top rated aaa status.

a news anchor from the greek broadcaster that was shot down in june as performed in open air show in front of the organization have quaters and some five hundred people were at the event the company was closed in june over budget cuts and service a police a victim dozens of former employees who had occupied the building for months in protest at the closure. iran and six world powers are moving closer to striking a deal which will freeze to iran's atomic production in return for easing sanctions the emerging agreement caused outrage in israel with prime minister netanyahu describing it as a mistake of historic proportions but experts believe that breaks were is just around the corner it's clear the momentum is taking hold the negotiations have been held in a very warm atmosphere between the different sides the international community through the international atomic energy agency is going to have to get on the ground going to have to see that the enrichment facilities that iran has are not

operating as they have been going to ensure the stockpile of twenty percent enriched uranium something is done with that and that's what they're negotiating about there's a lot of details to this it's highly technical but those are the kinds of issues that they are discussing for the first time in years with a purpose of seriousness and honestly that does appear to be bearing some momentum now next examines president obama's waning popularity. illegal immigration is a hot topic and everyone always says that immigrants do the work that no one wants to do well let me explain why that is i would occur just on vacation got into

a taxi term by a former migrant worker who used to make a living in moscow he told me that he really worked hard driving unloading trucks after five years he came back home and bought a house yes from the seller that russians can't even survive and he was able to buy a house employers and russian america say that locals don't want to work are demotivated well want to margaret work or on a salary that could build a bright future woman compared to a local who can't even make ends meet while you could see why the migrant workers are a lot more motivated let me put it to you this way if you knew that you had to work five hard years of some awful labor under awful conditions somewhere far away like brazil or germany what would be able to pay off a house would you do it i think you would let's not buy into this myth that locals and country x. don't want to work they just don't want to work in complete futility for table scraps but that's just my opinion.